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NZ PM Jacinda Ardern Caricatured in Sketch on New Euthanasia Law

NZ PM Jacinda Ardern Caricatured in Sketch on New Euthanasia Law

righttolife.org.uk UK political satire series Spitting Image has featured a critical take on New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s support for the country’s new euthanasia law. Episode seven of the series, which has returned after a 24-year hiatus, included a sketch of Jacinda Ardern as

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Who Needs the Moscow Circus When the COVID Circus is in Town?

The Moscow Circus is in Auckland this month but it has stiff competition in the clown department. There were lies, live and exclusive on the AM show yesterday morning with “anxious Aucklanders (are) waiting with bated breath for the results of genome sequencing from the latest case of COVID-19”

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Birds Eye Forced to Change Australian Packaging

Birds Eye Forced to Change Australian Packaging

So-called “economic nationalism” – the desire of local consumers to purchase locally made goods and push back against the “offshoring” ways of globalism – has been a bubbling undercurrent in Australian politics for years. The Wuhan plague has brought it to the surface. Surveys are showing that Australians are keen to

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Sheriff Collins’s Double Vision
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Sheriff Collins’s Double Vision

Information Satire SHANE RETI has been unanimously voted in by the caucus as Deputy leader, and I have been told to CARRY ON. After the Specials, we ended up with 25.6% of the vote. EPSOM was the only electorate that got more party votes than the REDS. Interestingly TAKANINI

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Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

Pssst, Wanna FREE Taste of Insight Politics?

If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics podcast by Cam Slater that was first published 26th October 2020. Insight: Politics Podcast with Cam Slater – Episode 28 If you enjoyed

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The Clowns at Wellington Council Take Centre Stage Again
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The Clowns at Wellington Council Take Centre Stage Again

Arthur Yesterday a majority of Wellington City Councillors, a split of 9-6, voted for the sale of Council land for the controversial development at the presently picturesque Shelley Bay. This is a development that will, in the long run, turn into another Oriental Bay. It will become a semi-

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Is Govt Upholding Its End of the COVID-19 Bargain?

Is Govt Upholding Its End of the COVID-19 Bargain?

ACT Party “Aucklanders will be asking whether the Government is upholding its end of the COVID-19 bargain,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “New arrivals at the MIQ facility at the Grand Millennium were seen on Monday mixing and mingling with people from The Vincent Residences.“Several hundred people from

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Daily News Roundup – 13 November 2020

Daily News Roundup – 13 November 2020

Housing and Reserve Bank Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Greens co-leader James Shaw lashes out at Labour over rising house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): James Shaw says it’s time to tax capital gains and wealth to take heat of housing market RNZ: PM Jacinda Ardern on house prices: ‘It just

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A Sharp Contrast: Labour Ministers vs Opposition Spokespersons

A Sharp Contrast: Labour Ministers vs Opposition Spokespersons

I have listed ten key portfolio areas and looked at the backgrounds of those MPs who are involved in each. It is pretty much a case of ability versus inability. Prime Minister: Ardern vs Collins Jacinda Ardern — Post university she worked as an adviser to Helen Clark and in London

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

[…] Hipkins said they would give information as it came to hand. He said the response needed to be calm and methodical and that information would be shared as quickly as it could be. He repeated the message that “people are not the problem, they are the solution”. He urged anyone

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News You Can Trust from Lambton Quay and the World

News You Can Trust from Lambton Quay and the World

Information Satire Our dear leader Mr Goosestepper congratulated Ms Ardern after her victory in the New Zealand elections. He noted the success of her campaign in which her style of froth, bubble and fairy dust triumphed over the presentation of facts and policies. This confirmed his own previously reported preference

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Devastating News for the Democrats

Devastating News for the Democrats

If media did half the job they are supposed to, this would not be news. “In a 1987 Democratic primary debate, Biden sprinkled Kinnock’s phrases into his own speech and forgot to credit him – a blunder many believe cost him the presidency.” Lord Kinnock is a former leader of

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